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𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐚𝐳𝐳, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲, & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 🌸
🗓️ 5 — 6 December
📍 Casalinga Farm, Muldersdrift
🎟️ Get your Day and Weekend passes via FIXR

POSTS STORIES REELS

𝐔𝐋𝐉𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓’𝟐𝟔 𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐋𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐔𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐔𝐍𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐃 🌺

Early Bird tickets are sold out, with Phase 1 tickets moving swiftly.

To everyone who secured a ticket before a single artist was announced: you struck gold! Thank you!

𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃(ƒ) 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.

From 𝟏𝟓 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲, we will continue unveiling the artists, collaborations and special performances that will shape this year’s experience.

Until then, Phase 1 remains your last opportunity to secure tickets before the full world of ROOTED is revealed—and before tickets move to Phase 2.

Phase 1 available until the 31st of July or while allocation lasts.

𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒
• Phase 1 — 𝐑𝟏 𝟏𝟎𝟎 (𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 31 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦)
• Phase 2 — R1 600 (𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑜𝑛 30 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟)
• Phase 3 — R2 100

𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐒
• Phase 1 — 𝐑𝟔𝟓𝟎 (𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 31 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦)
• Phase 2 — R950 (𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑜𝑛 30 𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟)
• Phase 3 — R1 250

🗓️ 5–6 December 2026
📍 Casalinga Farm
🎟️ umanyanolwejazzfest.africa

No vhidziwa! Mbumbano ndi yeneyi! For the love of jazz, community & the culture. #umanyanolwejazz by @umanyanolwejazz

𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐘! 🤩

We’re still taking in the magic that we co-created this past weekend for what was our last year at the beautiful and intimate Villa Simmone. 💫

Thank YOU for joining us, from far and near. Another edition of us being beautiful and joyous together.

𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫: 𝟓 & 𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐚𝐳𝐳, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞.

Mbumbano ndi yeneyi! Lu manyano olu! #umanyanolwejazz #ULJFest2025 by @umanyanolwejazz

𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔! 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝! 🌺🎷

This year, in celebration of our milestone 5th anniversary edition, we bring you our boldest cultural and curatorial statement to date. With a line up that includes international, diasporic and alternative musical languages coming into conversation with African jazz over a one-of-a-kind weekend at Casalinga Farm in Muldersdrift, Johannesburg.

Celebrating the role of music as both cultural archive and collective ritual.

𝐖𝐄𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝑓).

Set your reminders. 🔔 From 3pm (SAST), we kick off our phased announcements of the first wave of live acts, sonic curators, and voices shaping the sound of ULJ FEST 2026.

No vhidziwa! Mbumbano ndi yeneyi! #umanyanolwejazz #ULJFest2026 by @umanyanolwejazz

(Swipe>>>) Throughout jazz history, the voice has been both storyteller and instrument.

It has moved through blues and ballads, spirituals and gospel, big bands and bebop; through scat, vocalese, poetry, indigenous song and experimentation. It has carried words, bending syllables into rhythm, melody into improvisation, into another instrument within the ensemble.

And as jazz travelled, so too did the voice, absorbing the languages, histories and musical traditions of the places where the music took root.

Here in Southern Africa, that conversation found distinct expressions of its own. From marabi, township jazz and the great African jazz vocal traditions, to choral music, folk, praise, gospel and indigenous song, the voice became one of the places where jazz could speak to home. Across the Atlantic, jazz’s African-American lineage has continued its own conversations with blues, soul, spoken word and poetry.

This December, ROOTED (ƒ) gathers artists who continue that conversation in their own unique ways across generations, musical traditions, and approaches to the voice.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬:
aja monet, Zoë Modiga, Tlokwe Sehume, Buhlebendalo Mda, Omagugu, The SN Project, Zu. and MandiFeze.

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬:
Selimo Thabane, Paras Sibalukhulu Dlamini, Spha Mdlalose, Thesis ZA, and Bokang Ramatlapeng.

Swipe through to discover when each artist joins us across the weekend.

𝟓-𝟔 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 · 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐀, 𝐉𝐎𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆
Day + Weekend tickets available on umanyanolwejazzfest.com or FIXR.

8 more acts are still to join us ROOTED (ƒ) programme, each adding another dimension to our unfolding story of ULJFest’26.

#festivals #jazzfestival #umanyanolwejazz #ULJFest2026

𝐚𝐣𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐟)

𝐙𝐨𝐞̈ 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐟)

𝐓𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐰𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐟)

𝐁𝐮𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐟)

𝐎𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐠𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝐟 by @umanyanolwejazz

(Swipe>>>) The ensemble is more than musicians playing alongside one another.

From its earliest formations, collective improvisation sat at the centre, carefully balancing the tension between the freedom of the individual held inside the responsibility of the collective.

As the genre evolved, so did the possibilities of the ensemble. From small groups built around collective improvisation, to the orchestral force of the big-band era, to bebop’s quartets and quintets. Alongside marabi, kwela, mbaqanga, choral traditions and the musical languages already surrounding them, resulting in increasingly experimental formations.

Across generations, the ensemble continues to function as a meeting place between composition and improvisation; inherited musical lineages, new ideas, and individual technique. Where musicians build new musical languages collectively, stretching at the edges of the form.

This December, we turn our attention to the ensemble.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
Sereetsi & the Natives Sun Xa Experiment
Sun Quintet

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
Ndabo Zulu & Umgidi Ensemble
Carlo Mombelli’s Chapter 7 Jazz Cats SA

Swipe through to check out when each ensemble joins us across the weekend.

𝟓–𝟔 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 · 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐀, 𝐉𝐎𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆 Day + Weekend tickets available on umanyanolwejazzfest.com or FIXR.

#festivals #jazzfestival #umanyanolwejazz #ULFest2026

𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐢 & 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 (@𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇)

𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐗𝐚 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 (@𝐬𝐮𝐧_𝐱𝐚_𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭_𝟓) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇)

𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐐𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐭 (@𝐬𝐮𝐧_𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐭) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇)

𝐍𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐨 𝐙𝐮𝐥𝐮 (@𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐨) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇)

𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢 (@𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇)

𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐀 (@𝐣𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐬_𝐬𝐚) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇)

Get your day or weekend pass tickets 🎟️🌸 (Link in bio)

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
Sereetsi & the Natives Sun Xa Experiment
Sun Quintet

𝐒𝐮 by @umanyanolwejazz

(Swipe>>>) Jazz has never been particularly interested in keeping an instrument to a single role.

Keys, strings and horns moved through forms that met, borrowed from and transformed one another, carrying different histories while continually finding new functions within the music.

Piano and organ had already found a place in Black South African musical life through churches, hymns and choral traditions before marabi stretched their possibilities further. Cyclical chord patterns made harmony inseparable from rhythm and dance; as those languages entered larger ensembles and encountered swing, bebop and modern jazz, pianist-composers continued to stretch the keys across rhythm, harmony, composition and improvisation.

The guitar moved differently. Between rhythm and melody, accompaniment and improvisation, it became part of musical worlds whose boundaries were rarely fixed. In kwela, it helped hold the rhythmic foundation beneath the pennywhistle; electric guitar opened possibilities for interlocking rhythmic and melodic lines, while musicians increasingly brought the instrument into the foreground as an improvising voice.

And the horn brought breath. Trumpets, saxophones and trombones carried enormous force through South African dance orchestras and big bands. As musicians engaged swing, bebop and modern jazz, the horn became an increasingly individual voice too, capable of carrying melody, answering, punctuating, conversing or taking a composed idea somewhere entirely unexpected.

Closing out the day split for our Phase 1 and 2 live programme, are six incredible artists across keys, strings and horn.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
Lwe’i Netshivhale, Vuma Levin, and Dr Sibusiso Mash Mashiloane

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
Norman Chauke, Mpumi Dhlamini, and Robin Fassie

𝟓–𝟔 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 · 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐀, 𝐉𝐎𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆
Day + Weekend tickets available now.

8 more acts are still to join us for ROOTED (ƒ), each adding another dimension to the unfolding world of ULJFest’26.

#ULJFest2026 #umanyanolwejazz #festivals #jazzfestivals #jazz

𝐃𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐨 “𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐡” 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐧𝐞 (@sibumash) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑 by @umanyanolwejazz

(Swipe >>>) Before recorded music became something we could carry privately, it was something people gathered around.

DJing became part of the way Black music travelled, endured, transformed and found new publics.

Jazz, soul, funk, disco, reggae, dub, hip-hop, house, techno, broken beat (and more ) did not develop in isolation. Their histories overlap, borrow from, answer and transform one another, shaped by Black musical histories and by the movement of sound across geographies.

As records moved through radio, clubs, shebeens, sound systems and dancefloors, a new musical role emerged around them.

Selectors became part of that circulation. Not simply playing records, but moving backwards through the archive, connecting different musical worlds and expanding the possibilities of a record. In so doing, collapsing decades and distance.

And in this way, selection becomes more than sequence.

This December, the sonic world of ROOTED (ƒ) continues behind the decks: Black music histories in circulation, crossing regions, genres and generations.

𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟓 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫
Lynnée Denise, Nqalastyle and Nelee

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:
June Jazzin, Atiyyah (Future Nostalgia), and Zviko Dryad.

Swipe through to discover when each artist joins us across the weekend.

𝟓–𝟔 𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 · 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐀, 𝐉𝐎𝐁𝐔𝐑𝐆
Day + Weekend tickets available on umanyanolwejazzfest.com or FIXR.

#umanyanolwejazz #ULJFest2026 #ULJ26 #festivals

Lynnée Denise for ULJ’s ROOTED (f) 🌸

Nqalastyle for ULJ’s ROOTED (f) 🌸

Nelee for ULJ’s ROOTED (f) 🌸

𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐉𝐚𝐳𝐳𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇) 🌸

𝐀𝐭𝐢𝐲𝐲𝐚𝐡 (𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐢𝐚) 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇) 🌼

𝐙𝐯𝐢𝐤𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐔𝐋𝐉 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇) 🌼 by @umanyanolwejazz

𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗡 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘. 𝗔 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱. ✨🌸

This December, we’re delighted to introduce ROOTED (ƒ) Elevated Hospitality — a beautifully appointed setting where exceptional hospitality meets the vibrant atmosphere of UManyano Lwe Jazz Festival.

An invitation to step away from the everyday and enjoy an extraordinary shared experience, designed for celebration, connection and leisure.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀.

Whether treating yourself, celebrating with friends, entertaining clients, travelling especially for ROOTED (ƒ) or seeking something exceptional during your stay in Gauteng, our Elevated Hospitality offers a distinctive way to experience the festival.

Set against the beautiful natural surroundings of Casalinga Farm, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗚𝗘 brings together elegantly curated indoor-outdoor spaces, considered comforts and attentive service for an occasion worth sharing.

𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗘𝗟𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦

With limited availability, ROOTED Lounge reservations are arranged in advance to ensure a thoughtfully hosted experience. Whether joining us individually or bringing a larger group together, our hospitality team is ready to assist with reservations and guest arrangements.

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 & 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗛𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 | 𝗕𝘆 𝗘𝗻𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝘆
📧 hospitality@umanyanolwejazzfest.com by @umanyanolwejazz

𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍!

From the food we share to the what we wear, read, collect and create, culture lives beyond the stage.

This year, ULJ’s ROOTED (f) food and market village brings together curated food + drinks and collectable items from businesses and creative entrepreneurs who contribute to the richness of the culture.

Join our community of vendors to be part of ROOTED (f). Spaces are limited, and all applications are subject to selection.

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟐𝟔 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫.
𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝟔 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫.

𝐴𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑏𝑖𝑜 𝑜𝑟 𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑦𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑤𝑒𝑗𝑎𝑧𝑧𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑡.𝑐𝑜𝑚

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐚𝐳𝐳, 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. 🌸 by @umanyanolwejazz

𝐒𝐎𝐁𝐔𝐊𝐖𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐀𝐍𝐎 | 𝐂𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 🖤

We celebrated pan-African icon and anti-Apartheid revolutionary, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe’s centenary on the occasion of our 3rd edition of UManyano Lwe Jazz.

As we welcome ULJ’s next chapter following our 4-year run as a boutique festival, it is a great joy to welcome back Soweto based band, Sun Xa Experiment. 🌼

A bolder vision & more of the things you have come to love about ULJFest.

𝐒𝐞𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐦, 𝐨𝐧 𝟓&𝟔 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐎𝐎𝐓𝐄𝐃 (𝒇). 🌸

For the love of jazz, community, & the culture

#festivals #jazzfestival #umanyanolwejazz #ULJFest2026 by @umanyanolwejazz

(((playlist for you))) 🔗 Inspired by aja monet’s forthcoming appearance at UManyano Lwe Jazz: ROOTED (ƒ), 5–6 December 2026 and the long tradition of confluence between poetry, jazz and the blues.

Comment “aja monet” and we’ll send you a link to the full playlists: available on Apple Music and Spotify.

I’ve been excited about this performance, my excitement had sent me back into an interest in the relationships between poetry, jazz and blues, so we made this for y(our) discovery and listening.

The playlist features the likes of Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, aja monet, Lebo Mashile (@lebomashile), Koleka Putuma (@kolekaputuma), Amiri Baraka, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lesego Rampolokeng, Modise Sekgothe (@modisesekgothe), to name a few.

WHEN THE POEMS ARE ROOTED IN JAZZ AND THE BLUES.

#umanyanolwejazz #musicplaylist #musicdiscovery #poetry by @umanyanolwejazz